Bottles



' (No Model.)

, E. GUMBREOHT.

MACHINE FOR GAPSULING BOTTLES.

No. 357,315. Patented Pebps', 1887.

WITNESSES:

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N. PEYERS, Pmm'umo a' m Wichinglun. a, c.

NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

EUGEN GUMBREOHT, OF NAOKENHEIM, NEAR MENTZ, GERMANY, ASSIGNOR TO THEWITTEMANN BROTHERS, OF NEWV YORK, N. Y.

MACHINE FOR CAPSULING BOTTLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 357,315, dated February8, 1887. Application filed October 19, 1886. Serial No. 2l6,642. (N0model.) Patented in Germany April 16 18 5 No. 34,531. I

tofore been granted to me in Germany under date of April 16, 1885, No.34,531,) of which the following is a specification. This inventionrelates to certain new and vuseful improvements in that class ofbottlecapping machines in which radially-movable slides are provided,which are operated by cams or eccentric guides, and thus pressed againstthe bottle-head. I

The object of my invention is to simplify the construction of themachine, to make it more efiective and more rapid in its operation.

The inventionconsists in the combination, with a fixed plate in whichthe pressers are guided, of 'a' movable piece acting on the pressers andserving to-press the ends of the same against the .cap of thebottle-head, all as will be fully described hereinafter, and finallypointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a front view of my improvedbottle-capping machine. Fig. 2is a cross-sectional view of the same.Fig. 3 is a rear view. Fig. 4 is a front view of a modification, showingthe pressers in one position. Fig. 5 is an end view, and'Fig. 6 is afront view, showing the pressers in another position.

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' upper ends with lugs O,projecting toward the rear, and the inner endsare provided with lugs D, projecting toward the front. The inner orunder sides of said lugsare recessed segmentally. To lugs D of twoslides segmental rubber heads E are fastened. Recess F is formed in thecenter of the plate for receiving the neck of the bottle, and in saidrecess a head, G, of a screw is located, a thumb-nut, H, beingscrewed onthe end of the screw.

A disk, J, is mounted to slide on the face of the frame A, and is uidedby the flange K of By means of the handle 0 the disk Jis turned into theposition shown in Fig. 1, whereby the slides are separated,so as topermit of placing the bottle-head into the recess or cavity F. Thehandle 0 is then pressed in the direction of the arrow as, Fig. 1,whereby the rubber heads E are pressed against the side of thebottle-head and cap on the same, the ends of the said heads abutting,and the lugs D on the other two slides are pressed against said heads atthe meeting ends, whereby pressure is exerted on all the sides of thebottle-head and cap on the same,and the cap is securely pressed on thehead, so that the slides move outward when the handle 0 is turned in theinverse direction of the arrow 00. A sliding pin, P, is passed throughthe lug O of each slide B,which pins are surrounded by spiral springs Q,resting against the under side of the lugs G and against the inner endsof the radial slots Q in the plate or frame A. -When the disk J isturned in the direction of the arrow as and the slides moved inward,said springs are compressed, and when the disk J is moved' in theinverse direction of the arrow 41: said springs expand and movethe-slides outward.

In the modification shown in Figs. 4., 5, and 6 the'slides are passedthrough slots R in the edges of the square plate A and through radialgrooves S in a ring, S, mounted to turn on the frame A and provided witha handle, S. The slides B are provided at their outer ends with theheads 0*, which are larger than the *slots in the square frame A so asto prevent the slides from passing too far into the frame A. By turningthe ring S in the direction of the arrow as the slides are brought intothe position shown in Fig. 6, whereby the inner ends are moved towardeach other, and the rubber caps on the inner ends of two of the slidespressed against the bottle-head and cap,

and the other two slides pressed against the two rubber caps.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secureby Letters Patent 1. In a bottle-capping machine, the combination, witha frame having guides, of slides mounted in said guides to move towardand from the center ofthe frame, which slides are provided withprojections, a rotary disk having cams acting on said slides, rods onthe slides, the ends of the rods being in the rim of the frame, andsprings mounted on said rods and pressing the slides upward,substantially as set forth.

2. A bottle-capping machine constructed with a fixed frame and slidingjaws on the same, two of which jaws, opposite each other, are providedat their inner ends with semicireular softrubber heads, the otherjawsbeing provided with lugs which can act on said rubber heads,substantially as shown and de scribed.

3. In a bottle-capping machine, the combination,with the frame, of theslides 13, having the lugs Gand D,the disk J,guide 1 on the frame andprovided with cam projections which can act on the lugs D, the rods P,passing through the lugs C and having their ends at the rim of theframe, springs surrounding said rods, and soft-rubber heads on twoopposite slides, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed myname in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EUGEN GUMBRECHT. [In 3.]

Witnesses:

CASP. LAMBINET, CARL VoL'rZ.

